Dear all,
I am trying to understand the mechanism for the pagelayout when making
scores. I suppose it is not possible to have a layout that is
suitable for all resolutions of fonts, PS, DVI, pageformats...
My aim is to put the score in the center of the page, but when changing the
hight of the page, dvips does no more center the layout.
I Do not know if it is possible to have a general method for the pagelayout.
With the information in mr. Ickings answer in the letter size ps,
i tried to make a checklist on how to install the pagelayout.
I will be happy if anyone would comment it (and grateful if
anyone could complete it).
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0. Put the score in the center of the page
0.1. Printer dependencys, how to manage?
0.2. Postscript features (based on dvips en gsview)
- the reference point is lower left on the page
- if not default use the option:
DVIPS.EXE -e0 -t letter %1
or DVIPS.EXE -e0 -t A4 %1
1. maximum pagelayout with 10mm margin on the 4 sides
1.0. preferences
1.0.1 adding a footline: \advance\vsize-12pt or \advance\vsize-24pt
to be changed for different fonts?
1.0.2 adding a "piano bracket": \advance\hoffset 3mm\advance\hsize-3mm
to be changed for different musicsizes?
1.1. \hoffset=-15.4mm\voffset=-15.4mm
1.1.1. A4 : \hsize=210mm\vsize=297mm
1.1.2. Letter : \hsize=8.5in\vsize=11in
1.1.3. A4 and letter : \hsize=190mm\vsize=259mm
1.2. \advance\hsize-20mm\advance\vsize-20mm
2. Nice pagelayout
If a score does not fill the whole page, one could use larger margins,
i.e. the default margins of Latex (or Tex?)
A. Van Ryckeghem
